The previous chapters revealed Afrolantica Legacies’ reliance on a conspiracy theory world view. In the second chapter’s Marxist parable of the Citadel, Derrick Bell imagined a conspiracy to allow the advancement of a handful of “lowlanders” in order to deceive the masses. In the third chapter Bell defends the antisemitic conspiracy theorist Louis Farrakhan and advances his own version of the “Jews control the economy and will run you out of business if they want to” conspiracy. And yesterday the excerpt from the fifth chapter showed Bell’s embrace of Robert L. Allen’s conspiracy theory that whites in America had effectively “colonized” the black community, installing fake black leaders who would actually sabotage black interests.

For the sixth Afrolantica Legacy Bell goes all in on imaginary conspiracies.

Bell titles his Critical Race Theory fiction “The Black Sedition Papers” and describes a plot to use a series of studies by various “race traitors” to blame black Americans for their proletariat class status:

“Under the ground rules, the papers are to focus on black pathology, describing it in detail and condemning those afflicted with it.”

In the essay’s conclusion, Bell imagines an academic friend investigating the Black Sedition Papers conspiracy and reporting back to him on a text suspected of being part of the evil white scheme. He then lays out the strategy I’ve employed in this analysis of Afrolantica Legacies.

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Fail Burton

I love the first one – another example of the self-sealing and circular arguments the black Left uses like a black holes use gravity to prevent everything including and especially in the sense of these writings – light.

I’m surprised these morons didn’t call what are in effect white papers, “White Papers,” so they could have a good chuckle of self-congratulations at their own cleverness while they made small fusion reactors in the garages just for fun. There’s a sucker born every minute but I’m not one.

In science, a “non-falsifiable” theory is one that is invalid – or irrelevant – because there is no possible way (even theoretically) that it can be proven false. Bell’s writings are the sociological equivalent of one of these. What is the effective difference between a “black sedition paper” as described, and a genuine article describing a genuine pathology in the black community?

If they actually want power and opportunity, I would be more convinced by factual evidence provided by a black professional that jumped through all of the hoops and was shot down by the “white power structure.” I work in a government lab – where one would expect the conspiracy to be most rampant, if anywhere – and there are many black scientists, engineers, and managers working here. They don’t seem particularly oppressed to me, but of course my viewpoint is limited. On the other hand, I see many articles in the professional engineering literature asking why black students usually seem to go into the “soft” professions like marketing and tend to avoid math, engineering, and the sciences.

I’d really like to know what Bell would consider to be a good society? How would everybody else act towards blacks, and how would they act towards others? (And, if they’re all going to act like Bell and Wright, why should we let them get power in the first place? Talk about self-fulfilling prophecies!)